How much: $10-$50. Tickets available at 734-764-2538 or the UMS web site. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the League Ticket Office, 911 North University Avenue, Mondayâ€Friday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. -1 p.m., closed Sunday.

“One of the things I realize is that we are always talking about how we grow as human beings, how do we feel optimistic about this life? It’s easy to feel that this world is going to end, that everything is getting worse. It’s almost like when I play a concert nowadays I feel I am fighting for happiness and bringing that element to people so they can say maybe we as human beings can turn this around.

“It’s almost like watching a movie in 3-D. It’s really cool is seeing people recognize ‘Salt Peanuts’ out of an Indian raga or something,” he observed.

“That’s one thing that really spoke to all of us. You take Monk’s music, Wayne (Shorter’s) music, Dizzy Gillespie’s music — their music is popular forever because there is more to find inside what they did. There’s ways to re-interpret (the music) and the way they wrote they made music available to humanity forever.”